Archive - Software Design: Tidy First?

Return of Multi-tasking?

Before you start, I’m not advocating for anything here.

Jun 16 •

Features & Options Revisited

Tidy Together chapter

Jun 13 •

Augmented Coding: Coached by the Genie

When things improve, that’s great.

Jun 11 •

Me an' Algernon

Originally published May 20, 2015.

Jun 10 •

Augmented Coding: Copy/Paste Detector

A way to help the genie make up for it's lack of design sense

Jun 9 •

Functional Genie

Getting the genie to use functional programming style in Rust

Jun 8 •

The Generalize Step In TDD

At CraftConf this year I debuted a talk on Canon TDD.

Jun 6 •

Augmented Coding Technique: Copy From Simpler Language

One of my experimental projects is to see if I can write a library-quality, performance-competitive basic data structure with a genie.

Jun 6 •

May 2025

Copy From a Simpler Language

Maybe a way to get the genie out of the tar pit

May 31 •

Legitimate Peripheral Participation

A Genie Perspective

May 23 •

Free Idea: Train on Changes, Not on Code

There’s no way, augmented or not, for me to follow up on all the ideas I’m generating as I explore augmented coding.

May 20 •

My Augmented Coding Tools As Of 16 May 2025

Flavors of genies

May 16

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